City of Cape Town

Broadband Optic Fiber Project &Commercial Model

Andre Stelzner

Leon van Wyk

Broadband Infrastructure Project

Phase 1

Construction complete

Core ring and local routes of 270km of optic fibre cable

Five switching centres housing transmission equipment

70 municipal facilities connected,

Telecoms Operations Centre established

Broadband Infrastructure Project

Phase 2Planned and in progress

Includes Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha and Atlantis

185km core route, 136 City buildings, 15 switching centres / rooms

45 Western Cape Government buildings

Planned completion by end of 2015 (current funding)

Broadband Infrastructure Project

Phase 3In planning

Includes Simonstown, Fish Hoek, Hout Bay.

Bellville to Somerset West redundancy via Kuilsriver and Stellenbosch

Yzerfontein

Metro Area Network

Metro Area Network providing min of 1Gbps (x3000 faster that previous average Metro Area Network speed) to connected municipal buildings.

DWDM technology inherited from the 2012 FIFA World Cup has increase the capacity of fibre infrastructure.

This spare capacity will help enable the Provincial Telecoms Strategy in the Metro.

The City does however have spare capacity which could be make availably commercially.

The Commercial model

It is however not the City’s intention to be a provider of telecommunication services to private sector end-users,

but rather to lease dark fibre and related infrastructure to licenced service providers.

The Current Status of Commercial Services

Procedures and standard contracts are being put in place to support tariff based services

Tariffs will be advertised as part of the City’s Budget process for public comment during March – April 2012 and public hearings thereafter.

These tariffs make provision for:

Rental of unlit Telecommunication Fibre

Rental of Switching Centre Rack Space

Metro Short-haul Circuits: 100Mbs, 1Gbs, 10Gbs

Thank you

In Closing:

The city has establish and is operating the first phase of its metro optic fibre network for own use.

Spare capacity will be available. Please use the public participation process to comment on

proposed tariffs for leasing of optic fibre infrastructure.